It makes me really angry when people highlight the words that they want to type over
and press delete or backspace to get rid of the text before typing in the new text.

I don't know why it annoys me, but it really really does!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:04, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

My Word spazzed out recently
So that highlighting and typing did not actually get rid of the highlighted words, meaning I then had to delete them. Very irritating.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:06, Reply)

Your face is very irritating
HIIIIIII-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:07, Reply)

someone in my office freaked out because they accidentally put tracking on word
they rang me panicking with "all the letters have gone red and crossed out! What's happened? Is it a virus?!"
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:10, Reply)

Mine keeps doing that, very easy to fix
Tools - Options - Edit - Typing Replaces Selection
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:12, Reply)

I worked it out in the end
I think a coworker changed it for me. I'll randomly fuck with people's computers until I think I've got the culprit.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:13, Reply)

I think it's Alt +T that turns it off and on, or Alt+Shift+T

(PsychoChomp, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:15, Reply)

Ahhh
I probably accidentally did it (Command + T on an Apple keyboard is a shortcut I use in a program). I'll still fuck with other people's computers though.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:16, Reply)

New tab
New tab!
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:20, Reply)

In Safari and Firefox, yes :p
I use it in something else as well.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:21, Reply)

No, I think it's definitely alt + shift + print screen
*sits and waits*
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:17, Reply)

Reminds me of back in the Quake days
Of convincing noobs that typing "bind mouse1 kill" into the console would make all their weapons a one-shot kill.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:20, Reply)

I knew it'd be something stupid, but I thought I'd give it a try anyway
Whoops.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:46, Reply)

actually it's ALT+ T+O+T
so if you're typing "total" or something with the alt key pressed that'll cause it.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:17, Reply)

Worse are people who aren't advanced enough to highlight and tap backspace
O.N.E.L.E.T.T.E.R.A.T.A.T.I.M.E
(TheColonel, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:11, Reply)

Also people who call backspace delete and carriage return enter

(TheColonel, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:12, Reply)

who calls it carriage return?!

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:22, Reply)

People who know it's not called 'enter'

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:23, Reply)

BING

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:24, Reply)

Fair enough but saying to people "press carriage return"
is going to make me sound like a total douchebag so I'll stick with enter
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:27, Reply)

I say "press return"
When that's what I want them to do.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:28, Reply)

I don't call it carriage return everytime, hardly ever in fact.
Return will do. But it's not, not has it ever been "Enter". Just because it often performs the same function.
(TheColonel, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:35, Reply)

you would have loved the people at my IT drop in thing
there was one guy who EVERY week asked how to make a 'capicul' letter.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:13, Reply)

Excellent. He should be rewarded with a treat every time he got it right.
Speaking wurds is dificulp
(TheColonel, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:14, Reply)

i had sympathy to start with
after all these people had barely switched on computers before. But a year and a half later, you think you'd have cracked it
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:15, Reply)

Makes you wonder if people are actually trying and just monumentally thick.

(TheColonel, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:19, Reply)

I blame low confidence
it's the only way I can stop from killing
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:32, Reply)

Grr
I hated it when I worked in Dixons and people would ask for "digickul" TV.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:14, Reply)

My friend worked in currys
and said after phone jacker everyone would ask for a doovda player thinking they were original and hillarious.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:16, Reply)

I wanted to stab such people

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:18, Reply)

What about people who don't even highlight?
They put the cursor there and backspace backspace backspace backspace
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:47, Reply)